Quotes from The Oathbound

Mercedes Lackey ·  302 pages

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“Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound


“She would never truly be her own woman if she allowed fear and old memories to dictate where she would or would not go.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound


“And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound


“You are not the only female hire-swords I have dealt with,” he replied. “Many of my trade allies have them as personal retainers. It has often seemed to me that many of those I met have had to be twice as skilled as their male counterparts to receive half the credit.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound


“Kethry had once described summoning as being “like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.”
― Mercedes Lackey, quote from The Oathbound



About the author

Mercedes Lackey
Born place: in Chicago, Illinois, The United States
Born date June 24, 1950
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